HPE Aruba OS up to 10.6.0.2 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in HPE Aruba OS up to 10.6.0.2. It has been rated as critical. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-42501. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in HPE Aruba OS up to 10.6.0.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An authenticated Path Traversal vulnerabilities exists in the ArubaOS. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows an attacker to install unsigned packages on the underlying operating system, enabling the threat actor to execute arbitrary code or install implants.

The advisory is shared at support.hpe.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-42501 since 08/02/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/29/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 207739 (ArubaOS 8.10.x < 8.10.0.14, 8.12.x < 8.12.0.2, 10.6.x < 10.6.0.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (HPESBNW04709)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (207739). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• HPE

Name

• Aruba OS

Version

• 8.9.0
• 8.10.0.0
• 8.10.0.1
• 8.10.0.2
• 8.10.0.3
• 8.10.0.4
• 8.10.0.5
• 8.10.0.6
• 8.10.0.7
• 8.10.0.8
• 8.10.0.9
• 8.10.0.10
• 8.10.0.11
• 8.10.0.12
• 8.10.0.13
• 8.12.0
• 8.12.0.0
• 8.12.0.1
• 10.4.0
• 10.6.0
• 10.6.0.0
• 10.6.0.1
• 10.6.0.2

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.hpe.com/

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